Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1887 — FOREICN. [ARTICLE]

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TiiE Chancellorship of the British Exchequer* has been accepted by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, to'fill tbe vacancy created by the resignation of Lord Randolph Churchill. Genekal Boulangel: has consented to a reduction from ?Lt>,ooo,ooo to $10,000,000 of the supplementary credit asked for the military department of the French Government for the year. '' Vienna cablegrams represent (hat three hundred thousand Bussiau troops have been ordered to mass in Kieff, and that notices or billet were served on the occupants of ten thousaud bouses'. The Xeue Freie Press plainly hints that the best thing Austria can do is to submit to Russia's wishes in order to avoid a conflict. The Tti{iblatt and other papers bitterly deplore the fact that “Austria is compelled to abandon her Balkan programme because she has been left in the lurch by Prince Bismarck, who has m ule peace with Russia.” Clemenceau, the Freneu statesman, interviewed at Vi nna, said: “There can be no war between Franca and Germany unless Germany makes the first attack, because every responsible F>enehmau is determined that Franco shall offer no provocation." .. . The postponem nt of the redemption of consols for five years is urged by the London Daily .Vcir.s, in o’der to pave* the way.for a war loan.. .The commission which investigated the. Belfast riots recommends that two lawyers be .appointed resident magistrates, and that the complete control of the police Invested in a town inspector. Loud Bautington has declined a position in the British Cabinet.. The cholera has somewhat abated in she Argentine Republic... .The Right Hou. William .Henry Smith, Secretary of War, is to take Lord Randolph Church ll’s place as leader of the Conservatives in the British House of Commons. Uartingtou, Joseph Chamberlain, and George J. Goschen have decided The eighteenth anniversary of the entry of the Kaiser, when a boy of 10, into the army, was celebrated with great rejoicing at Berlin on New Year’s, though a little in advance of the actual date.... Gladstone is said to be still holding out for the Irish bill, and will not consent to a anion of the Liberals on any other basis.. . .Two hundred and seventeen persons lost their lives at Madras, India, by the burning of tiie. reserved inclosure at the People’s Park. They wete ill natives. ....

Lopd Salisbury has been notified by the Liberal Unionists in the British Parliament of their determination not to designate a representative of their faction for membership in the Conservative Cabinet, although they will continue to support the Salisbury Government. It is officially stated that the lit. Hon. William Henry Smith wHbretaittthe office of Secretary of War. The Rt. Hon. Edward Stanhope will succeed Lord Randolph Churchill as Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Earl of Carnarvon will take the office of Colonial Secretary, which Mr. Stanhope now holds. The other offices will remain unchanged. ~ ! ,